Euro 2012: Greece scouting report
Fernando Santos leads Greece into this summer’s Euro 2012 tournament in a calm yet confident mood.
Sport blogs
Sepp Blatter: Penalty shoot-outs must remain, they’re football’s great leveller
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Bresnan leads counter to put England back in control
28 May 2012 12:00 AM
West Indies 370 & 61-6 England 428: Rampant bowlers rip through West Indies top order to undo tourists' earlier hard work
Bairstow falls short as Windies pacemen discover his weakness
28 May 2012 12:00 AM
The "dog-thrower" Graham Gooch uses to drill England batsmen has become a regular feature of the team's net sessions, and if Jonny Bairstow keeps his place for the next Test at Edgbaston, he will surely become very familiar with it.
Robin Scott-Elliot: So far outside the box that it moves the goalposts, in a post-ironic way
28 May 2012 12:00 AM
View From The Sofa: The Euros' Most Shocking Moments, BBC 3 / Test Cricket Highlights, Channel 5
Round-up: Patel leads the way for in-form Bears
28 May 2012 12:00 AM
Jeetan Patel's four wickets helped Warwickshire make it three wins from three Clydesdale Bank 40 Group C games with an easy eight-wicket victory over Northamptonshire yesterday.
Bresnan leads England to brink of series-clinching victory
27 May 2012 08:02 PM
West Indies 370 & 61-6 v England 428
Vintage Strauss adds some sparkle to England
27 May 2012 12:00 AM
Captain scores second century in successive Tests to put his team firmly in command and struggling West Indies attack is stretched to the limit
Roach reprieved by Cook but blunders leave him in need of rehabilitation
27 May 2012 12:00 AM
Certain errors of judgement are so severe they deserve a public health warning. Never tell the unvarnished truth when your wife, or significant other, asks whether her "bum looks big in this". Never treat the taxmanto your version of Michael McIntyre's only joke.
On the Front Foot: Pietersen fine shows lack of clarity on freedom of speech
27 May 2012 12:00 AM
According to a poll last week, the fifth best thing about living in Britain is liberty and freedom of speech.
County Championship round-up: Clarke cameo sinks Surrey to send Warwickshire clear at top
27 May 2012 12:00 AM
Without a Championship century since 2009, Tim Ambrose experienced personal frustration mixed with the compensatory satisfaction of a match-winning performance as Warwickshire completed a five-wicket win over Surrey at The Oval to move into a15-point lead in the First Division.
Experiment fails to stand test of time
27 May 2012 12:00 AM
A triangular tournament held in England 100 years ago does not augur well for the ICC Championship
Strauss back in the century groove
26 May 2012 07:11 PM
Captain Andrew Strauss hit his second century in as many matches as England set the foundations for a considerable first-innings lead on day two of the second Investec Test against the West Indies.
'Anderson can say some more when I get my double hundred'
26 May 2012 12:00 AM
When a player has scored only three Test centuries in 12 years of international cricket, he is entitled to enjoy his moment in the spotlight, and Marlon Samuels was not about to waste his.
Sammy and Samuels turn tables on England
26 May 2012 12:00 AM
West Indies 304-6 England: Record seventh-wicket stand makes a game of it after West Indies threatened to implode
Round-up: Ambrose has the Bears sitting pretty
26 May 2012 12:00 AM
Warwickshire need only 41 on the final morning at The Oval to complete a win that will give them a 15-point lead at the top of the First Division, with a fourth victory in six matches.
Defiant seventh-wicket stand duo hold up England charge
25 May 2012 07:28 PM
West Indies 306-6 v England
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